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Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast radiation and ultra-fast winds outward, as illustrated in...
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope provide strong evidence that the slender, bulgeless galaxies can,...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that a flat, spiral galaxy called NGC 3621 has a...
This artist concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts...
Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some extremely massive stars go out...
SCI2017_0007: Artist illustration of the thick ring of dust that can obscure the energetic processes that occur near...
A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across...
The blue dots in this field of galaxies, known as the COSMOS field, show galaxies that contain supermassive black...
We Asked A NASA Expert Social Plan We Asked A NASA Expert Social Plan 100% E12 What exactly is a black hole? Well,...
Galaxy NGC 1068 is shown in visible light and X-rays in this composite image. High-energy X-rays (magenta) captured...
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist's concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling...
With its all-sky infrared survey, NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has identified millions of...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset...
This chart illustrates relative masses of super-dense cosmic objects, ranging from white dwarfs to supermassive...
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the...
Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NuSTAR's high-energy X-rays...
Like a lighthouse in the fog the luminous core of NGC 2768 slowly fades outwards to a dull white haze in this image...
Observation Date: 1 pointing on Dec 4, 2000 and 9 pointings between Nov 18 and Dec 5, 2008. Distance Estimate: About...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue...
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black...
Top: An illustration of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, in orbit. The unique school...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie-Irvine...